Wedding Flowers Ideas: Most Popular Wedding Flowers For Every Season & Month

With so many flowers to choose from, it really helps to know which tried and tested favourites are best for wedding flowers. Wedding florals are a key part of your wedding decor and attire so the best wedding florals have a distinctive flower and a stem that can withstand styling.

As you gather wedding flower ideas, here’s the most popular wedding flowers that make their way into almost every wedding in some form and the list includes some new classics for 2025 and beyond.

With flowers to choose for everything from your bouquet to your ceremony and reception, here’s your essential list of the most commonly used wedding flowers for weddings in any season, including:

• why they’re so popular

• how best to use them in your wedding

• common colour varieties

• when they’re in season

• costs

• cheaper alternatives

First let’s discover the most popular wedding flowers that are used in weddings in multiple seasons because they’re not only stunning but available throughout much of the year. Next, we’ll explore the most commonly used wedding flowers for your specific wedding season.

So what are the most well-used wedding flowers? They are:

1. Peonies

2. Dahlias

3. Roses

4. Anemones

5. Sweet Pea

6. Ranunculus

7. Hydrangeas

8. Tulips

9. Craspedia

10. Snapdragon

11. Queen Anne’s Lace

12. Calla Lillies

It’s no surprise that each of these are stunning, iconic flowers that make a beautiful statement. Let’s take look at why each is so popular and why you might want to use them in your wedding.

1. Peonies: Gorgeous peonies have a large striking flower with romantic soft and gently ruffled petals. This top wedding flower comes in gorgeous pink, purple, orange and white tones creating an instant luxurious, stylish look to any floral arrangement. Peonies do have a scent, although it’s sweet, if you want unscented flowers, you’ll want to use an alternative.

However, their beauty comes at a price as peonies are one of the most expensive wedding flowers around so you’ll want to use them sparingly. For cheaper peony alternatives, dahlias, roses and chrysanthemums have large layered flowers that can work just as well.

Peonies are only available from April to June so if yours is a winter or fall wedding ranunculus or camellias are great alternatives. For summer, beautiful dahlias are perfect.

 

2. Dahlias: Dahlias are a particularly stunning, popular wedding flower because they have an amazing curved petal structure and come in a range of bright colours. When choosing dahlias look at a range of varieties because some are cheaper than others and their flowers come in a range of sizes.

 

3.  Roses: Classic roses are a wedding floral staple because they’re affordable, available year round and come in a huge range of colours and styles. Their robust structure helps to construct floral arrangements, whilst spray roses are great fillers and large garden roses will make your bouquet of decor pop.

A universal symbol of love, roses are found in some form at just about every wedding. If you want to supplement roses with a cheaper flower, lisianthus look just like them but have a lower price point.

 

4. Anemones: Perfect for monotone, pared back or striking floral arrangements, anemones are a versatile, contemporary wedding floral with a striking black centre and contrasting colours or white petals.

Their unusual colour combinations mean anemones are guaranteed to make any floral arrangement pop. They are available almost all year and are great value for money. If you decide to use anemones for an August wedding (they’re not available from June to July) make sure they have plenty of water otherwise they will wilt in the heat.

 

5. Sweet Pea: Delicate sweet pea are a sweet, little floral that come in whites, pinks and purples. With their long, green stems they’re a brilliant filler flower, popular for wildflower and unstructured floral arrangements. Once cut, sweet pea have a short shelf life of up to 5 days so when they’re in demand they can get pricey.

 

6. Ranunculus: Ranunculus are a statement floral that comes in a range of bold colours. Its pretty spiralling layers of petals make it a stunning, exquisite choice for any arrangement.

Ranunculus can be used in everything from floral arrangements for the reception and ceremony to wedding bouquets, adding a romantic, elegant look. They can be pricey so dahlias and cosmos are popular ranunculus alternatives. Available from autumn to spring at a good price point, ranunculus are a favourite for wedding styling.

 

7. Hydrangeas: Hydrangeas are another statement wedding flower with incredible bursts of cloud-like pastel-coloured petals in blues, purples, white and pinks. Adding a unique, dramatic and romantic look to wedding decor for the ceremony and reception as well as bouquets, hydrangeas are guaranteed to elevate your wedding flowers.

With such an exciting bloom, it’s not surprising that hydrangeas can be expensive. However, hydrangeas are have a big flower so you won’t need lots of them to make your wedding florals pop. Hydrangeas are available from summer to autumn.

 

8. Tulips: The unique shape and range of bright colourways tulips offer make them a favourite for adding pops of colour and interest to wedding flowers.

Tulips come in a wide range of colours and varieties and are great value for money. To add a unique touch to your wedding florals try parrot, fringed or peony tulips which have unusual petal shapes. Tulips are available from winter to early summer

 

9. Snapdragon: For 2025, snapdragons’ unusual bloom of stacked, rigid clusters of flowers arranged along the flower stem is a favourite way to add interest to wedding flowers. Available in bright purples, pinks, whites and yellows, snapdragons offer a range of options to create a bold, unique arrangement. Their structure makes snapdragons great for arrangements for the reception but you can also use them to add interest to bouquets.

Although they look pricey, snapdragons are great value for money so they’re a great way to add interest to your wedding flowers. Snapdragons are available all year and are an ideal way to make your wedding florals memorable.

 

10. Craspedia: Heralding from Australasia, craspedia are a stunning floral with a single flower on a stiff green stem. The round, bright yellow flower is a vibrant and beautiful wedding flower choice for 2025 and beyond, adding a unique, fresh touch to your wedding bouquet or ceremony and reception florals.

Craspedia can be used fresh or dried and are available year round. The single, wooly-textured flower’s unusual geometric shape gives it a fun feel that looks luxurious although craspedia are actually great value for money. These beautiful yellow wedding flowers can also be purchased dyed in gorgeous jewel or metallic tones if you want to add unique, stunning pops of colour to your wedding flowers.

 

11. Queen Anne’s Lace: This wedding flower classic is always trending and it’s no different for 2025 florals. The appeal of Queen Anne’s Lace lies in its clusters of pretty white flowers that make it a perfect filler flower for floral styling.

Available from summer to autumn, Queen Anne’s lace is a beautiful, natural-looking floral that will make your arrangements look luxurious, abundant and stunning.

 

12. Calla Lillies: Like all the flowers in this list, calla lillies have a really distinct look. The striking calla lily flower is an exquisite, smooth, trumpet-shape that’s a dream for fans of minimalist styling.

Its clean, sleek aesthetic makes calla lillies perfect for brides with pared back decor and florals so it’s no surprise that calla lillies are extremely popular for contemporary weddings. Calla lillies do come in pinks and purple but the white varieties are used most often because they’re really striking. The white flower against the long green stem is a beautiful, unique look that you can play around with to create florals that stun.

 

Whilst this is an impressive list of flowers that are used in weddings pretty much throughout the year, you will obviously need other florals.

The 3:5:8 rule in floristry means these top statement flowers will most likely end up being your focal flowers. Focal flowers are the statement flowers that make your arrangement pop. Using the 3:5:8 rule you’ll need 3 types of focal flowers then 5 stems of foliage to add structure and 8 stems of filler flowers to make your arrangement look abundant and complete.

Whilst the 3:5:8 rule can be scaled up and down to create different sized blooms, it is a reminder that you’ll need other seasonal flowers to accompany your statement blooms.

So which should you choose? Let’s take a look at the best seasonal flowers for your wedding that haven’t already been mentioned.

Let’s take it season by season.

Best Wedding Flowers For Spring

Spring wedding florals are exquisite. At this time of the year, beautiful pastel-coloured florals are working their way out of the ground as temperatures rise so you can look forward to pretty colours and much-loved florals.

Tulips and daffodils are synonymous with spring and said to mark its arrival so they’re both common for spring wedding florals. Flowers at this time of the year come in gorgeous pastel hues so you’ll have florals in pastel blue, lilac, peach, yellow, pink and cream that will make your wedding flowers look amazing.

Top wedding flowers for spring are:

1. Daffodils

2. Tulips

3. Freesias

4. Hyacinths

5. Hydrangeas

6. Anemones

7. Sweet Pea

8. Peonies

9. Lily of the Valley

10. Lilacs

11. Ranunculus

12. Roses

 

Best Wedding Flowers For Summer

For summer, you can go big with bold, really colourful wedding flowers. Be sure to keep them well-watered so they withstand the high temperatures for your entire wedding day.

Be careful with any scented flowers which may spark guests’ allergies. Ask your florist if any flowers have scents before using then check whether any guests are allergic to floral scents.

Top flowers for summer weddings are:

1. Sunflowers

2. Hydrangeas

3. Dahlias

4. Cornflowers

5. Cosmos

6. Ranunculus

7. Peonies

8. Cornflowers

9. Freesias

10. Roses

11. Hibiscus

12. Calla Lillies

13. Carnations

14. Freesias

Best Wedding Flowers For Autumn / Fall

Fall wedding flowers make for some of the most creative blooms. At this time of the year, autumnal colours will make your florals a rich amber or rust colour complemented by creams, reds and burgundies with foliage in soft mid-greens.

You can also make use of the vegetables that are harvested at this time of the year and dried grasses that are around so incorporating things like pumpkins and pampas grasses into arrangements will make your florals both stunning and unique.

Top wedding flowers for autumn include:

1. Chrysanthemum

2. Calla Lillies

3. Roses

4. Cosmos

5. Dahlias

6. Anemones

7. Snowberry

8. Marigolds

9. Hydrangea

10. Asters

Best Wedding Flowers For Winter

You can’t think winter florals without thinking about Christmas and snow so winter florals do mean reds, burgundies, whites and dark green foliage.

This is another season where you can get really creative with botanicals so berries, pine cones, dark green foliage, branches, fruits, succulents and frosted botanicals can all be used in your winter florals.

Top wedding flowers for winter include:

1. Holly

2. Alder

3. Mistletoe

4. Hellebores

5. Amaryllis

6. Ivy

7. Anemone

8. Lavender

9. Roses

10. Camellias

11. Alder

12. Lisianthus

So how much can you expect to pay for all these beautiful flowers? Let’s take a look at what you can expect to pay for the different flower arrangements you’ll need for your wedding.

Average Wedding Flower Costs

1. Flowers for the church or ceremony venue: From £500 - £1,500 ($667 - $2002)

2. Men’s boutennieres: From £10 - £25 ($667 - $2002)

3. Bouquets for you and your bridesmaids: From £125 for your bouquet and from £90 for your bridesmaid’s (From $667 and $2002 respectively)

4. Table Centrepieces: From £50 - £300 per table ($66 - $400)

5. Optional: floral arches from £300 upwards ($400), aisle flowers from £100 - £500 ($134 - $668), blossom trees from £50 - £255 ($67 - $340), canopy trees from £125 ($166).

Total wedding flower spend? On average total costs for wedding flowers are between £350 and £4000 ($467 - $5341). Clearly, the flowers you choose, size and style of your wedding and variety of floral arrangements you choose will impact how much you spend.

Choosing locally grown flowers that are in season will both help to keep costs down and support sustainability. If you choose out of season flowers, they’ll have to be flown in which is both bad for the planet and your wedding budget! When considering sustainability, dried and faux flowers are increasingly common.

After spending so much and doing all the work to choose them, you may very rightly want to hang on to your wedding flowers. If so, here’s 10 ways to preserve your wedding flowers once your wedding’s over.

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